Public Lecture on "Open sourcing innovation" by Massimo Banzi

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Organizer: PolyU Design

Speaker: Massimo Banzi, Co-founder of Arduino

Synopsis of the lectureMassimo Banzi is the co-founder of the Arduino project. He is an Interaction Designer, Educator and Open Source Hardware advocate. He has worked as a consultant for clients such as: Prada, Artemide, Persol, Whirlpool, V&A Museum and Adidas.

Massimo started the first FabLab in Italy which led to the creation of Officine Arduino, a FabLab/Makerspace based in Torino. He spent 4 years at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea as Associate Professor. Massimo has taught workshops and has been a guest speaker at institutions all over the world.

Before joining IDII he was CTO for the Seat Ventures incubator. He spent many years working as a software architect, both in Milan and London, on projects for clients like Italia Online, Sapient, Labour Party, BT, MCI WorldCom, SmithKlineBeecham, Storagetek, BSkyB and boo.com.

Massimo is also the author of “Getting Started with Arduino” published by O’Reilly. He is a regular contributor to the italian edition of Wired Magazine and Che Futuro, an online magazine about innovation. He currently teaches Interaction Design at SUPSI Lugano in the south of Switzerland and is a visiting professor at CIID in Copenhagen. For further information, please see http://www.massimobanzi.com/

Further details will be announced closer to the event. Everyone is welcome, but registration is requested. For inquiries, please contact hanna.wirman@polyu.edu.hk. The talk is organised as part of the MSc in Multimedia & Entertainment Technology program.